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sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months agoThe way we do education is based on fundamentally flawed concepts, from the grading systems we use to the clear design towards specifically neurotypical (and usually more privileged) children. This is just true everywhere. Childhood psychology/developmental psychology and education are pretty complicated and poorly understood by most of the public, even educators.
MudMan@fedia.io 3 months ago
This is just repeating what I originally said, but hear me out. Who is "we"?
I mean, this very nice lady even says at around the 35 minute mark that "there are plenty of schools that don't grade their students and have great college acceptance rates", which makes me think she thinks her "we" may not be your "we". She definitely doesn't seem to think that "we" is "all of them".
So who is "we"?
sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months ago
“We” is most of the schools in a majority of education systems in the world.
MudMan@fedia.io 3 months ago
Yeeeah, I'm not gonna cut through the ethnocentrism here, am I? Because that sure sounds like it means "the US and all the places I kind of assume work just like the US but don't actually know in any detail". Which is the exact type of discourse I was calling out at the top of this thing. If I'm honest, the implicit assumption you're making that the countries that don't work just like what you know don't do so because education there isn't "widespread and well-established" is kind of icky, depending on how much benefit of the doubt one gives to your "western world" blanket.
To be clear, I don't have a particularly conservative take on this issue and I certainly have objections to the current state of the education system(s) I know. But they're not the same ones you mean, not for the same reasons and certainly the concepts, issues and solutions the nice lady in the video is calling out would not really apply.
sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Sorry but you sound crazy. Do you know nothing of schooling in Japan, South Korea, or China? Or Germany or anywhere else in Europe? Would you be so kind as to point out a country where the part about education primarily rewarding being neurotypical (and usually rewarding being privileged but not always) doesn’t apply? Where would you say has an “equal” or “fair” education system?